(Any references to existing events are purely coincidental ;) ) Seriously, how do you determine ROI and how do you use it to make IT decisions? This is not an easy question to answer, and one of the reasons is the difficulty of defining the problem. It boils down to costs and benefits. We at [...]
Google has an "I'm feeling lucky" button that takes you directly to the first search result. In a perfect world, when a user enters a search term, the first result(s) should be what the user intended to find. However, this is easier said than done. Search results are ranked by relevancy and are dependent on a large number [...]
In Atlas, you can zoom in on the map by using the + icon on the map or by double clicking on the map. There is a third way, if your device has a keyboard: You can zoom into an area that you 'draw' on the map, using the Shift Key. You can even select [...]
The ultimate goal an organization has regarding its data is that it needs to be able to analyze every data source. However, by just doing that, a lot of potential information is left 'on the table.' By correlating these data sources and finding relations, more information can be extracted from the same volume of data. Causes of [...]
Our goal, as engineers, is to come up with ideas on how to do things better, more efficient, while saving cost at the same time. Several of our clients use GPS for fleet management. A GPS device is installed in (maintenance) trucks, and data is collected and visualized on some dashboard applications. In the same vehicles, they also use tablets running our mapping software.
Fleet tracking using GPS
This eliminates the use of a dedicated GPS device and all the associated back-end software, servers, etc. And if you still want to use existing dashboards, simply use our platforms API to derive the data. One of the data sources is, you guessed it, is GPS. After some thinking we thought this was kind of silly: so we have a GPS device, sending data to a central location, which is then being ‘downloaded’ back into the trucks? But tablets and smartphones (both Android and iOS) have GPS build in. And the App is already sending data back and forth. So it doesn’t take a genius to realize that we can easily have the App to share its current location, to be shared an processed between users.